# Alain Touwaide
Suosituimmat podcast-jaksot
Päivitetty:
alain touwaide (born 19 September 1953 in Brussels-Berchem Sainte Agathe) is a US historian of medicine and sciences of Belgian origin. He has been teaching history of Greek medicine and its tradition, Food history and other topics in the Medical Humanities at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), during the academic years 2015-2016 (fall and winter terms), 2016-2017 (winter and spring terms), 2017-2018 (spring term), 2018-2019 (winter term).
His education includes first degrees in classics (1975) as well as oriental philology and history (1977) and a PhD in classics (1981), all earned at the University of Louvain.
The Florentine Codex and the Herbal Tradition: Unknown versus Known?
The 16th-century ethnographic study known as the Florentine Codex included a richly detailed account of natural history of the New World. In this lecture, Alain Touwaide—historian of medicine, botany, and medicinal plants—compares the Codex and contemporary European herbal traditions. He suggests t…
The Florentine Codex and the Herbal Tradition: Unknown Versus Known
Alain Touwaide—historian of medicine, botany, and medicinal plants—compares the detailed account of natural history in the Florentine Codex and contemporary European herbal traditions. He suggests that they represent the opposition between unknown and known—a dynamic force that led to many discover…
The Florentine Codex and the Herbal Tradition: Unknown versus Known?
The 16th-century ethnographic study known as the Florentine Codex included a richly detailed account of natural history of the New World. In this lecture, Alain Touwaide—historian of medicine, botany, and medicinal plants—compares the Codex and contemporary European herbal traditions. He suggests t…
Gardens for Health: A Walk Through History
Alain Touwaide explores some iconic sites in the Mediterranean world—Pompeii, Constantinople, Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada, and Padua, among others—and examines archaeological fields and early manuscripts that illustrate the relationship between humans and nature through time and space. Since ancient …
Plants, Artists, Languages: A Sense of Times and Places
Alain Touwaide, Ph.D., discusses how thousands of plant representations can be found in multiple ancient books, in manuscript or printed form, in many languages preserved in libraries all over the world. Sometimes original, but more often copied from one another, these illustrations rarely correspo…
HBM030: Crickets, Cadavars, and Conventional Wisdom
This episode is a Grab-bag, it contains three segments that serve as follow-ups to the three most recent episodes of Here Be Monsters.
Part 1: Crickets on Tape
In this segment, Jeff takes apart his tape recorder and installs a knob to help him slow down the tape without using digital wizardry in at…
Gardens for Health: A Walk Through History
Alain Touwaide explores some iconic sites in the Mediterranean world—Pompeii, Constantinople, Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada, and Padua, among others—and examines archaeological fields and early manuscripts that illustrate the relationship between humans and nature through time and space. Since ancient …
The Florentine Codex and the Herbal Tradition: Unknown versus Known?
The 16th-century ethnographic study known as the Florentine Codex included a richly detailed account of natural history of the New World. In this lecture, Alain Touwaide—historian of medicine, botany, and medicinal plants—compares the Codex and contemporary European herbal traditions. He suggests t…
Gardens for Health: A Walk Through History
Alain Touwaide explores some iconic sites in the Mediterranean world—Pompeii, Constantinople, Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada, and Padua, among others—and examines archaeological fields and early manuscripts that illustrate the relationship between humans and nature through time and space. Since ancient …
36. Rediscovering Greek Medicine: Wisdom from the Hidden Manuscripts and Texts
36. Rediscovering Greek Medicine: Wisdom from the Hidden Manuscripts and Texts
This week Professor Alain Touwaide, of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, gives us a rare glimpse at ancient manuscripts in libraries worldwide, revealing truths of Greek Medicine.
Professor A…
PODCAST-HAKUKONEET
Voit käyttää verkkosivustoamme etsiäksesi3,828,620-podcasteja ja196,445,286-jaksoja ihmisten, paikkojen tai aiheiden mukaan.
If I have seen further than others, it is by listening to podcasts and standing upon the shoulders of
giants.
‐ Isaac "Llamacorn" Newton
MUOKKAA
Kiitos, kun autoit pitämään podcast-tietokantaa ajan tasalla.
